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What exactly is an illegal hostile work environment? By Tara Hattendorf, Esq. At some point in your career, you are going to encounter an uncomfortable situation at work, perhaps to the point you feel you are being harassed. But at what point does such a situation elevate to the legal definition of hostile work environment (HWE) harassment? And if you feel you are being harassed, what can you do ...

At some point in the near future, employees are going to return to work after this COVID-19 pandemic and, you called it – the coronavirus is still going to be around. Especially as long as a vaccine has not yet been developed, employees in California should be aware of their rights to workplace safety after the coronavirus pandemic. While the onus is often on employees to tell their employer what ...

February 25, 2020 LOS ANGELES -- In the last decade, perhaps no industry has exploded in growth, and perils, in the United States faster than legalized cannabis. It was only in 2012 that the first states legalized recreational use of cannabis. Today, nearly 40 states have some level of legalized cannabis. Such rapid growth -- particularly in an industry dealing with product at once considered ...

LOS ANGELES -- Perhaps no group of Americans has been subject to a greater increase in racial profiling over the last two decades than those of Middle Eastern descent. When it comes to air travel, those prejudices are even more acute. But when American corporations condone -- and engage in -- such practices, the damage inflicted on the victims can last a lifetime. Such was the experience for one ...

LOS ANGELES COLLECTIONS EXPERT ZEIN E. OBAGI JR. OFFERS BEST OF BOTH WORLDS FOR BUSINESS OWNERS & LENDERS IN NEW BOOK Think pursuing outstanding debt while maintaining a business relationship with that same customer is impossible? You won't think that after reading "Getting in the Black." LOS ANGELES ­— It is the nightmare scenario every business owner and lender has faced at one time: A customer ...

LOS ANGELES ­— With providing clients top-level, aggressive representation in an efficient, cost-effective manner a pillar of its core values, Obagi Law Group, P.C. is excited to announce the move of its company headquarters to downtown Los Angeles. Previously located in Beverly Hills and Hollywood, California, Obagi Law Group is now located in Downtown L.A. at: Obagi Law Group, P.C. 811 Wilshire ...

In the Southern District of New York, Obagi Law will prosecute sexual retaliation and wrongful termination claims against the Chilean Permanent Mission to the United Nations on behalf of harassed female secretary April 26, 2018 MANHATTAN, NEW YORK — While the Me Too movement forces institutions throughout America, from Los Angeles to Congress, to confront the issues of workplace harassment and the ...

In an effort to meet the growing demand for top-flight legal services in complex real estate and business litigation cases, Obagi Law Group, P.C. is pleased to announce the addition of Hee J. Kim as an Of Counsel attorney. Mr. Kim not only brings to Obagi Law Group a wealth of experience in litigation, but was also named partner of an LLP as soon as he received his State Bar license in 2011. He ...

NEW YORK — In a Southern District of New York courtroom later this month, Zein E. Obagi, Jr. of Obagi Law Group will shine a light on elements of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act largely unknown to the public, elements which allow foreign sovereigns to, without liability, subject American citizens to abuses in the workplace. These abuses would be considered unlawful if executed by a company in ...

PASADENA, CALIFORNIA – On Thursday, March 9, 2017, Zein Obagi appeared before Ninth Circuit Judges Paez, Berzon and Christen to argue for the affirmation of U.S. District Court Judge Otis Wright’s denial of attorneys’ fees to a “nominally prevailing” plaintiff in Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) litigation. A fellow USC Gould School of Law graduate, Aaron Aftergood, Esq., asked Obagi to ...

NEW YORK, NY – On Friday, December 9, 2016, U.S. District Court Judge John G. Koeltl ordered the parties in Figueroa v. The Ministry For Foreign Affairs of Sweden , et al., to be ready for trial by October 2, 2017. The case arose from the alleged systemic discrimination directed by Defendants and their staff against Mr. Figueroa. Among other outrageous conduct alleged in the complaint, Defendants ...

LOS ANGELES, CA – U.S. District Court Judge George H. Wu set trial in the $13 million lawsuit against Harry Winston and amfAR for August 8, 2017. The case arises out of their multi-year “milestone partnership”. The case, Optikal Noize, Inc. v. AAB Productions, et al, C.D. Cal. 2:16-cv-06528, “doesn’t look good” for the parties, said Judge Wu at the scheduling conference Thursday morning at the ...

People often ask us how we sue foreign countries. The simple answer is, one brings a suit against a foreign country the same way she would against any other person or entity – by filing a complaint. The important distinction is that in a claim against a foreign state, the complaint must allege a jurisdictional basis for suing the state: a statutory exception to sovereign immunity. In addition, ...

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA—Alan Silberberg, CEO of EduMoz, LLC has said that his company has sustained and deflected more than a thousand attempts to hack the back end of its website, silberberginnovations.com. That site hosts EduMoz’s work for the Republic of Mozambique, which is evidence in a case that just concluded in the District Court, and is on appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. ...